The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

Christ being the Son of god, and perfect God him self, who never committed sin; was compelled to come down from heaven, & to give his body to be bruised & broken on the cross for our sins. Was not this a manifest token of Gods great ⟨p. 375⟩wrath and displeasure towards sin, that he could be pacified by no other means, but only by the sweet & precious blood of his dear Son? O sin, sin, that ever thou shouldest drive Christ to such extremity. Woe worth the time that ever thou camest into the world. But what booteth it now to bewail? Sin is come, and so come that it can not be avoided. There is no ¹man living, no not the justest man on the earth? but he falleth seven times a day, as Solomon saith. And our Saviour Christ, although he hath delivered us from sin: yet not so that we shall be free from committing sin: But so that it shall not be imputed to our condemnation. He ²hath taken upon him the just reward of sin, which was death, & by death hath overthrown death, that we believing in him, might live for ever, and not dye. Ought not this to engender extreme hatred of sin in us, to consider that it did violently, as it were, pluck God out of heaven, to make him feel the horrors and pains of death? O that we would sometimes consider this in the middest of our pomps & pleasures, it would bridle the outrageousness of the flesh, it would abate and assuage our carnal affects, it would restrain our fleshly appetites, that we should not run at random as we commonly do. To commit sin wilfully & desperately without fear of god, is nothing else but to crucify Christ a new, as we are expressly taught in the […] ³to the Hebrews. Which thing if it were denc•• printed in all mens hearts, then should not sin reign every where so much as it doth, to the great ⟨p. 376⟩grief and torment of Christ, now sitting in heaven. Let us therefore remember, and always bear in mind Christ crucified, that thereby we may be inwardly moved both to abhor sin throughly, and also with an earnest and zealous heart to love God. For this is another fruit which the memorial of Christs death ought to work in us, an earnest and unfeigned love towards God. So God loved the world (saith